Follow the Leader, Initial Reaction

Questions:

• Does Jughead being under the barracks have something to do with Ben summoning the smoke monster from beneath his house?
• Are the tunnels the ones depicted in the blast door map? Do they lead to all the stations
• What's with Richard building the ship in the bottle? Is this foreshadowing for him being on the Black Rock?
• Can we just find out why Richard doesn't age, how he got to the island and what is purpose is already?
• If Richard watched Kate, Jack, etc. die, then why is he alive? What killed them if not Jughead?
• Why does Locke want to kill Jacob?
• When and why did Eloise leave the island?
• Does it not occur to Jack that if they stop the plane from crashing on the island, then Kate goes to jail and that may be why she doesn't want to detonate Jughead?
• Uh, how did they get Jughead down there?
• Where is young Daniel Faraday?
• Where is Locke getting all his information from?
• Has Ben ever seen Jacob?
• Are they going to blow up Jughead?

Notes:

• I'm really disappointed that Daniel Faraday is dead, especially since we didn't see him make the video with Pierre Chang.
• I'm getting sick of the closing of the eyes of a dead person scene. Where is the Life and Death theme, Giacchino? Though I did like hearing Hollywood and Vines.
• Okay, I don't get this. They send Juliet and Sawyer off the island, have Kate join them, make it awkward and everything, and then in the trailer (SPOILER ALERT) we see all three of them clearly back on the island. What exactly is the point of that and how they hell are they going to get away with that without it seeming ridiculous?
• Also, I was so sure that when Sawyer told Juliet to go ahead and get on the submarine, he was going to leave her behind.
• Uh, Kate, you save evil little Ben, but you don't want to help Daniel Faraday? Some things this season have just seemed so out of character to me.
• I still get giddy like a school girl when Jack gets his ass kicked. I can't help it.
• I seriously can't want for Radzinski to kill himself. Phil can join him. Also, Horace, grow a set already. You're supposed to be in charge.
• Hurley not knowing when he was born or the President in 1977 was awesome.
• So, Locke told Richard that he was shot and to go help him. This is getting pretty cool.
• Wow, they evacuated everyone off that island pretty damn quick.
• I totally thought they killed Kate at first. I was fooled.
• I'm glad Sayid is back. Now, just for Rose and Bernard, Desmond and Penny.
• Jack is the new Locke. He's talking about destiny and trying to blow things on the island up. Who was wrong now, bitch?
• The CGI when the sub leaves was terrible. Come on now, ABC.
• I'm really liking Locke as the new leader.

Totally psyched for the season finale!